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Microbes and Infection is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 5), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Elsevier Masson s.r.l..
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ISSN 1286-4579Verify ISSN ↗1769-714XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier Masson s.r.l.
Cost to publish: About US$3,510 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Infectious Diseases | 122 / 361 | 66th | Q2 |
| Microbiology | 96 / 194 | 50th | Q2 |
| Immunology | 122 / 243 | 50th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1999–2025, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 5.
Microbes and Infection is Q2 in Infectious Diseases (rank 122 of 361), Q2 in Microbiology (rank 96 of 194) and Q2 in Immunology (rank 122 of 243), by CiteScore 2025.
Microbes and Infection is indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded, so it may have a Journal Impact Factor in Clarivate's Journal Citation Reports. JCR is paid, so check it for the current value. The closest free measure is its Scopus CiteScore 5, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 66th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.874, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 165.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,510 for open access (source: OpenAlex). Many journals also publish by the subscription route at no cost to the author, so confirm on the journal's own website.
Microbes and Infection is published by Elsevier Masson s.r.l. Its print ISSN is 1286-4579 and its online ISSN is 1769-714X.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Microbes and Infection has an h-index of 187 and a 2-year mean of 3.84 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #64 of 354 Scopus journals in Infectious Diseases.
Microbes and Infection published 55 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2023 with 130. 2026* is the year so far.
h-index, i10-index and 2-year mean citedness are open, licence-clear metrics from OpenAlex — not a proprietary impact factor. The subject rank counts only journals that OpenAlex has a figure for; it is not a Scopus or Clarivate ranking. Updated 2026-10-14.
In its latest 98 research articles (2024–2025), authors are most often from China (18.9%), Brazil (14.8%) and United States (7.7%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 1 retracted paper is recorded (0.2 per 1,000 papers). The Problematic Paper Screener flags none of its papers. These are indicators to check, not findings against the journal.
Retractions from OpenAlex; flags from the Problematic Paper Screener (Cabanac, Labbé & Magazinov, CC BY), 2026-09-21 export. A flag marks a paper for a closer look; it is not a finding against the journal.
Index data is curated from public sources (Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, DOAJ). CiteScore and quartiles reflect the latest available Scopus release. Always verify a journal's current status on its official source before submitting.
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